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Accession Number | RCDIG0001028 |
Collection number | 2DRL/0766 |
Collection type | Digitised Collection |
Record type | File |
Item count | 1 |
Object type | Diary |
Physical description | 27 Image/s captured |
Maker |
White, Thomas Walter |
Place made | Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Empire: Syria |
Date made | 1917-1918 |
Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
Copying Provisions | Digital format and content protected by copyright. |
Diary of Thomas Walter White, July 1917-January 1918
Description
Diary [book 1G] relating to the captivity during the First World War of Captain Thomas Walter White, Mesopotamian Half Flight, Australian Flying Corps. In this diary kept between July 1917 and June 1918, White details his time as a prisoner of the Turks at Afion Kara Hissar camp, Turkey. In particular he notes activities such as games of cricket and theatre plays. He writes in detail of new prisoners and their stories of their capture and subsequent travels to the camp. Food and the weather are also mentioned throughout.
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Places
- Africa: Egypt, Cairo
- Middle East: Iraq, Kut el Amara
- Middle East: Mesopotamia
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Damascus
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Gaza
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Jerusalem
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Afion Kara Hissar
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Constantinople
- Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles
Subjects
People
- Treloar, William Harold
- Drummond, Peter Roy Maxwell
- Haig, Frederick William
- Heathcote, Leonard Walter
- Poole, Alfred Anderson
- Rutherford, Douglas Wallace
- Parkinson, Vincent John
- Austin, Ronald Albert
- Lee, Oliver Matthew
- Potts, Jack Diamond Sumner
- Hancock, Frederick
- White, Thomas Walter
- McNamara, Francis Hubert (Frank)
- Piper, Thomas Henry
- Vautin, Claude Henry